How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

One must not trifle with love.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Great artists have no country.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

The return makes one love the farewell.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Just being aware of what you are about to do greatly diminishes the tendency to do what you don't want to. You will pull your hand back from that pizza slice, tell the waitress that you are passing on dessert, put on your gym shoes instead of going under the comforter, and take several deep breaths instead of screaming at your daughter.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

I'm not very good in the rain. I don't wear a golf glove.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Success is achieved by developing our strengths not by eliminating our weaknesses.

I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Gentlemen dont read each others mail.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

I enjoy high-speed about-turns in thought.